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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Hannah Roberts

Emma Barnett ‘crying for the community’ after terror attack at her old synagogue

Emma Barnett presents BBC Radio 4’s Today programme (Dominic Lipinski/PA) - (PA Archive)

BBC radio presenter Emma Barnett has said she cried for her community after learning of the terror attack which took place outside the Greater Manchester synagogue she worshipped at as a child.

Manchester-born Barnett, 40, who presents BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, said she has not been to the temple in Crumpsall since she was 16 but still remembers “proudly holding my mum’s hand going to sit in the women’s gallery”.

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